Check-book holder



Aug. 1l, 1925.

H. P. HENOCH CHECK BOOK HOLDER Filed May l2., 19,25

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Patented Aug. 11, 1925.

HARRY HENOGH, OF CHICAGO, ILLNOIS.

CHECK-BOOK HOLDER.

Application filed May 12, 1925. `Serial No. 29,758.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, HARRY l. Heimen, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Book Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a holding device and pertains particularly toa holding device designed to be used in connection with a folding backfor a folding pocket check book.

rlhe primary obj ect of this invention is the provision, in a manner ashereinafter set forth, of a hold down device for use in connection witha removable back or binder for folding check books or other foldingpads, to hold in position the free ends of the leaves of the pads.

It is well known that in the use of folding pocket check books, thatwhen one opens the check book to use the same, the free ends of theleaves of the book insist upon swinging over to the position in whichthey have been held while the book was in folded position. rl`his isvery annoying when one is trying to write upon the check, and toovercome this annoyance, the present device has been invented.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detailed descript-ion taken in connection with Atheaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, with theunderstanding that the invention is not confined to any strictconformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed andmodified so long as such changes and modifications mark no materialdeparture from the salient features of the invention as expressed in theappended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 shows a folding check book opened out andsecured in a back or binder, showing the device embodying this inventioncarried by the binder and engaging the edges of the check book.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the check binder, when thesame is closed, and the device embodying this invention.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken upon the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Referring now to the drawing in det-ail wherein like numerals ofreference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views,there is indicated by the numeral 'l a binder of the type usuallysupplied gratis as advertisement by banks and other business houses, forholding and protecting bank books or other folding pads. This binder lfolds transversely at the point 2 and has upon the outer face at one endthe button 3 and at the other end upon the inner face the snap tengaging the button to hold the binder in folded closed position. U ponthe inner face of the binder there is secured a pair of members 5 and 6respectively, setting up the pockets and 8 which pockets open inopposite direction, the pocket 7 opening toward that end of the folderwhich carries the but ton 3 and the pocket 8 opening toward the otherend of the folder as is shown.

Check books which are furnished for folders of the type described have,instead of a full back, a tongue 9 secured at the head of the book andthe free end of this tongue is adapted to slip into the pocket 8 of theholder to thus position the book properly therein.

After the check book has once been folded, the free ends of the leavesthereof will, when the book is opened out for use, close up and toprevent this annoyance there has been provided the clip member indicatedgenerally by the numeral l() which is adapted to hold down the free endsof the leaves at all times.

IThis clip member comprises a relatively long flat body of a material 11which eX- tends transversely of the folder through the pocket 7 and theends of this member extend through the inner side of the pocket as isclearly shown in Figure 3 where they are bent upwardly and inwardly asindicated at 1Q providing the inturned hooked ends as shown. Beneaththese hoked ends 12 of the clip member 10, the side edges of the checkbook are positioned, at the free end of the book as shown in Figure 1.Thus it will be seen that when the folder or binder 1 is opened out inthe manner shown in Figure 1, the free ends of the leaves of the checkbook will be prevented from closing due to the inturned ends l2 of themember l() which are engaged over the edges thereof.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that there hasbeen provided a new and novel means for overcoming the annoying tendencyof folding check book leaves to close while one is writing a check,

thus saving time and the smearing and i'nination et' a number of checksbefore one is properly written.

Having thus described my invention what l claim is l. A folding padholder of the character set, `forth, comprising, in combination with afolding back, a means carried by said back Jrer engagingthe side edgesof a pad held therein to held the free ends of the leaves thereof inposition against the inner face el the back.

il. folding pad holder of the character set forth, comprising, incombination with a Yfolding back, a holding member secured to said backand having hooked means for engaging over the edges of the free ends ofthe leaves of a pad, normallyY encased by the back.

3. A folding pad holder of the character set forth, comprising, incombination With a folding bacl, a holding member comprising a flatstrip of material secured transversely of the back adjacent one endthereof and having its ends extending beyond the inner face of the backand intnrned to provide hooks adapted to engage over the side edges ofthe free ends of a pad, held by the back.

ln testimony whereof, I all'ix my signature hereto.

HARRY P. HENOCH.

